eLearning – Bryan Zug’s Flat Hatter Collaborativehttp://zug.flathatter.com
Bryan Zug's blog on interactive development and the art of thriving in a world of change.Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:22:45 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3DevLearn 2007 Sessionhttp://zug.flathatter.com/devlearn-2007-session/
http://zug.flathatter.com/devlearn-2007-session/#respondWed, 07 Nov 2007 23:01:02 +0000http://zug.flathatter.com/devlearn-2007-session/Here’s my presentation files from my session at DevLearn 2007 in San Jose today as .PDF (1.3mb) or .PPT (1.7mb) — Dave Wilkins of Knowledge Planet and I did a session called “Team-based Authoring: It’s About Time”.
]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/devlearn-2007-session/feed/0Marching toward release of an open learning system…http://zug.flathatter.com/marching-toward-release-of-an-open-learning-system/
http://zug.flathatter.com/marching-toward-release-of-an-open-learning-system/#commentsWed, 05 Sep 2007 14:07:11 +0000http://zug.flathatter.com/marching-toward-release-of-an-open-learning-system/I’ve been marching busily during recent months toward release of a 200+ lesson web based training system for the new phase of a clinical information system at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.

Hope to release details soon on the site so those of you in the elearning space can take a look.

The architecture of the thing should be very interesting to those of you who lament with me how learning management systems (LMS’s) too often function as walled gardens — and cut off discoverability and content re-use as a result.

]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/marching-toward-release-of-an-open-learning-system/feed/3Mike Wesch discussing “Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us” video at Web2Open 4:00http://zug.flathatter.com/mike-wesch-discussing-web-20-the-machine-is-using-us-video-at-web2open-400/
http://zug.flathatter.com/mike-wesch-discussing-web-20-the-machine-is-using-us-video-at-web2open-400/#respondTue, 17 Apr 2007 20:09:41 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/mike-wesch-discussing-web-20-the-machine-is-using-us-video-at-web2open-400/So when I saw this video, I just about peed my pants. It’s a Ken Burn’s-esque animated screenshot/text/typography video that tells the story of the web up to today.

Just found out that the guy who made it, Michael Wesch, will be discussing the video at the Web 2.0 Expo today today at 4:00 pm.

It all takes place at the Web2Open gathering that is an unconference running in parallel (and in conjunction) with the main conference.

This is the kind of loosely coupled teaching/training that is going to take us into the next “age”.

My wife Jen and I were at Powell’s in Portland today and the first thing I saw when I walked in the door was this book ‘Made to Stick’ with a piece of duct tape on the cover.

Psych.

That’s cool cover design. And it got me to look at and buy the book. The six points of stickiness it covers —

Simplicity

Unexpectedness

Concreteness

Credibility

Emotion

Stories

I was just having a ‘discussion’ the other day about stickiness with a colleague of mine — what are the things that get an idea or a presentation to stand out and stay with? What are the characteristics of ideas that, when released into the world around us, make them take flight and establish a life of their own?

Hard questions — especially amidst all of the ‘noise of the age’ that clutters our current generations, from MySpace to Baby Boomer to Seasoned Citizens.

Me? I come down with most of the things on this list — so it’s timely.

Him? Not so much — instead he called catering to such things entertainment — and, well, he’s in the education business, not the entertainment business.

I was surprised again at how some lies die such slow deaths.

If you are in any kind of educational endeaver please drop this from your language — we are not in the entertainment business — we are in the attention span business.

And if you are not working to make your material sticky, then you are just wasting a lot of people’s time.

]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/made-to-stick-cover-design/feed/3Blackboard Patent to Be Re-examinedhttp://zug.flathatter.com/blackboard-patent-to-be-re-examined/
http://zug.flathatter.com/blackboard-patent-to-be-re-examined/#respondMon, 29 Jan 2007 15:32:34 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/blackboard-patent-to-be-re-examined/Since I’ve weighed in on this issue before, I wanted to note — word has come via Harold and Chris of a Slashdot report that:

“Groklaw is reporting that the US Patent and Trademark Office has just ordered a re-examination of the e-learning patent owned by Blackboard Inc, thanks to a filing by the Software Freedom Law Center. SFLC’s press release states, ‘The Patent Office found that prior art cited in SFLC’s request raises “a substantial new question of patentability” regarding all 44 claims of Blackboard’s patent…’ The SFLC explains that though such re-examinations may take a couple of years to complete, approximately ‘70% of re-examinations are successful in having a patent narrowed or completely revoked.’”

]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/blackboard-patent-to-be-re-examined/feed/0Ignite Seattle videos now ablazehttp://zug.flathatter.com/ignite-seattle-videos-now-ablaze/
http://zug.flathatter.com/ignite-seattle-videos-now-ablaze/#commentsThu, 14 Dec 2006 15:55:27 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/ignite-seattle-videos-now-ablaze/Had another great opportunity to shoot some rapid turn around video last week. This time it was for Ignite Seattle. All I have to say is what a night.

Brian Aker was great as he told the story of ripping up his new house to install his own computer based phone system — it’s as much a tutorial as it is an essays on geek relationships with your wife. Very funny. Blip.tv video is here.

So many others were great — go take a look at the other sessions when you get a chance.

]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/ignite-seattle-videos-now-ablaze/feed/2I’ll Have a “Cappuccino U”http://zug.flathatter.com/ill-have-a-cappuccino-u/
http://zug.flathatter.com/ill-have-a-cappuccino-u/#commentsSun, 26 Nov 2006 16:46:30 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/ill-have-a-cappuccino-u/Via Harold Jarche this AM comes a link to a free pdf book called “Cappuccino U” (.pdf) by Jerome Martin and published by Spotted Cow Press.

It’s kind of a chronicle of diving into / developing “a new, personally-driven approach to learning”. From the Intro —

This e-book is about a new style of learning in which innovative people have combined new information technology with traditional ways of learning to develop a new, personally-driven approach to learning. It happens predominantly in “the third place,” a location that is neither home nor office. The third place is usually a coffee house, one which is designed to serve this particular audience.

People gather in their favourite third places to work, relax, visit and learn. They work independently and in groups. Some of them use computers which may or may not be linked to the web. Some are taking courses online; others are writing books like this one.

This is Cappuccino U.

Martin goes on to relate how he dove into a Faulkner class via Oprah’s Book Club —

I soon learned that Oprah has not only a book club but a classroom as well. By joining her book club (at no cost to me) I found that I had access to lectures about Faulkner and the books. I and thousands of other students were told that the lectures would be available over the summer. We were asked to read the books in the order I listed them and were informed by e-mail when a new lecture was available on the web.

He then does a nice summary on how education is no longer “acquired through vaccination” — that’s a nice phrase —

Some people feel that they have an education because when they were 22 they received a Bachelor’s degree, or they received a PhD when they were 28 (or, more likely these days, 38).

However, education is not acquired through vaccination or some sort ofanointment. We learn daily – or we have the opportunity to do so. Continuing education, be it formal or informal, is essential to our growth as individuals.

If our formal education has been successful we will have been vaccinated with a curiousity virus and will continue to look for new knowledge, not just because it is useful to us but because we have an insatiable desire to learn and become better at what we do.

Overall, it’s a nice short summary of where things are headed — both for our traditional teaching institutions and for career training.
]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/ill-have-a-cappuccino-u/feed/2Annotate Online Video with Mojitohttp://zug.flathatter.com/annotate-online-video-with-mojito/
http://zug.flathatter.com/annotate-online-video-with-mojito/#commentsThu, 09 Nov 2006 14:50:19 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/annotate-online-video-with-mojito/There’s a post over on Lifehacker about using Mojito to annotate online video (ala YouTube). They’ve put together a cool example of adding callouts to the Sony colored ball commercial.

Am seeing this as an easy way to add titling and callouts to videos — in a way that can be collaborative, fast, and non-destructive.

Interesting…

]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/annotate-online-video-with-mojito/feed/1Less about eYada and more about participatory cultureshttp://zug.flathatter.com/less-about-eyada-and-more-about-participatory-cultures/
http://zug.flathatter.com/less-about-eyada-and-more-about-participatory-cultures/#respondWed, 08 Nov 2006 14:52:40 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/less-about-eyada-and-more-about-participatory-cultures/Tama points out a couple of reports this morning on technology and learning that focus less on the tools and more on how they enable folks to engage in participatory cultures.

That is why we focus in this paper on the concept of participatory cultures rather than on interactive technologies. Interactivity is a property of the technology, while participation is a property of culture.
Participatory culture is emerging as the culture absorbs and responds to the explosion of new media technologies that make it possible for average consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content in powerful new ways.
A focus on expanding access to new technologies carries us only so far if we do not also foster the skills and cultural knowledge necessary to deploy those tools toward our own ends.

That seems like a really compelling way to describe all this eLearning 2.0 stuff to me.

]]>http://zug.flathatter.com/less-about-eyada-and-more-about-participatory-cultures/feed/0Dove targets ‘beauty propoganda’ and blurs the lines of education, conversation, marketing, and provocationhttp://zug.flathatter.com/dove-targets-beauty-propoganda-and-blurs-the-lines-of-education-conversation-marketing-and-provocation/
http://zug.flathatter.com/dove-targets-beauty-propoganda-and-blurs-the-lines-of-education-conversation-marketing-and-provocation/#commentsTue, 31 Oct 2006 15:47:15 +0000http://elearningskinny.com/dove-targets-beauty-propoganda-and-blurs-the-lines-of-education-conversation-marketing-and-provocation/Perusing the meme this AM, I came across this Advertising Age article on Dove generating more results/buzz from this viral YouTube video than through a Super Bowl ad.

With not a penny of paid media and in less than a month, “Dove Evolution,” a 75-second viral film created by Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto, for the Unilever brand has reaped more than 1.7 million views on YouTube and has gotten significant play on TV talk shows “Ellen” and “The View” as well as on “Entertainment Tonight.” It’s also brought the biggest-ever traffic spike to CampaignForRealBeauty.com, three times more than Dove’s Super Bowl ad and resulting publicity last year, according to Alexa.com.
By those measures, “Evolution” is the biggest online-buzz generator in the U.S. personal-care and beauty industries, topping this year’s effort from Omnicom Group’s Tribal DDB on behalf of the Philips Norelco Bodygroom shaver. And that’s before the campaign began rolling out to 10 additional countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America last week.

When you watch the video, it’s easy to see why this is so sticky — very compelling conversation going on there about ‘truth/beauty’ done in a very lowfi way (even though it is an ad).

As the father of a 3 year old girl, Dove just won me over with a combination of marketing, education, conversation and provocation on the issue of ‘beauty propoganda’.

Somehow I get the feeling that this is what education is going to look like in the future — lots of blurred lines — all requiring engagedcitizens who will need to sort it all out.